Lecture Ludhiana — Page 24
24 and an appropriate law to help accomplish this task. Everyone agrees, on the authority of the Holy Qur’an and the Traditions, that in the latter days, when Christianity will hold sway, the supremacy of Islam will be estab- lished by the Promised Messiah who will demonstrate the superiority of Islam over all religions and creeds; he will kill the Antichrist and demolish the doctrine of the Cross. And this, as already mentioned, shall happen in the latter days of the world. Nawab Siddiq Hassan Khan and other religious divines, who have written books about these latter days, are of the same view. But the fulfillment of this prophecy has to be through some means because God also employs means to attain an objective just as He cures with medicine and satisfies hunger and thirst with food and water. Now that Christianity has become dominant and Muslims from different strata of society have entered its fold, God has willed Islam’s ascendancy in keeping with His promise. The instrument He has employed to realize this end is, of course, the death of Jesus as , which becomes the basis for bringing about the death of the religion of the Cross and breaking its back. I repeat with full conviction that there can be no better strategy to make the Christians shed their wrong beliefs than to prove the death of Jesus as. Ponder over this when you go back home, and reflect when you lie alone in bed, for in anger one is swayed by emotion, but a right-thinking person can still mull over it all. When I put this point across in Delhi, the noble-minded among the audience conceded that it